The Hour I First Believed Book Reviews

AUTHOR
Wally Lamb
SCORE
4
TOTAL RATINGS
453

The Hour I First Believed by Wally Lamb Book Summary

New York Times Bestseller

The profound and compelling story of a personal quest for meaning and faith from Wally Lamb, #1 New York Times bestselling author of She’s Come Undone and I Know This Much Is True

“The beauty of The Hour I First Believed, a soaring novel as amazingly graceful as the classic hymn that provides the title, is that Lamb never loses sight of the spark of human resilience. . . . Lamb’s wonderful novel offers us the promise and power of hope.”
—Miami Herald

When 47-year-old high school teacher Caelum Quirk and his younger wife, Maureen, a school nurse, move to Littleton, Colorado, they both get jobs at Columbine High School. In April 1999, Caelum returns home to Connecticut to be with his aunt who has just had a stroke. But Maureen finds herself in the school library at Columbine, cowering in a cabinet and expecting to be killed, as two vengeful students go on a murderous rampage. Miraculously she survives, but at a cost: she is unable to recover from the trauma. Caelum and Maureen flee Colorado and return to an illusion of safety at the Quirk family farm back east. But the effects of chaos are not so easily put right, and further tragedy ensues.

In The Hour I First Believed, Wally Lamb travels well beyond his earlier work and embodies in his fiction myth, psychology, family history stretching back many generations, and the questions of faith that lie at the heart of everyday life. The result is an extraordinary tour de force, at once a meditation on the human condition and an unflinching yet compassionate evocation of character.

 

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Book Name The Hour I First Believed
Genre Fiction & Literature
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Language English
E-Book Size 2.5 MB

The Hour I First Believed (Wally Lamb) Book Reviews 2024

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Wasn't his best. I have read all of Wally Lambs books and through them all the characters were well developed, the ending left you yearning for more. This book did neither. There were more characters in the book than I can count and most were unnecessary to the plot. This story could have been much better told if it was more focused and stuck to one tragedy occurring and how the main character, Caelum, dealt with it. Instead, this book touched on everything including the kitchen sink (9/11, Tragedy of school Shootings, Hurricane Katrina, etc.).

Wally Lamb does it again. A story of life including the ups and many downs. Could not put it down and was sad to lose "a friend" in Caelum Quirk when I was done with the story. Shows the never ending impacts of one's actions, specifically in this case, school violence. Great read, would recommend it for sure.

Amazing. Each of Wally Lamb's books is better than the last. He takes you on such an incredible journey that I have a hard time explaining his books to people who ask.

The Best Book Ever. This book was the absolute best book I have ever read in my life it was my first time reading a book by Wally lamb and now I look forward to many more. The book always had something going on wether it was in the background or front and center but it held my attention from page one all the way through to the very last page. Amazing work Wally in my opinion you just topped Tuesday's with morrie for me AMAZING!!!

Perfectly executed. Absolutely exquisite book. I have read all of Wally Lamb's books and thoroughly enjoyed this one. Very well done. I only wish There were more books to his collection.

So so boring. So much of this book is so mundane. Lamb’s premise of the aftermath of a school shooting, and its effects on survivors, is a good one. But Lamb goes completely overboard with the childhood of his main character. And... someone should let Lamb know that people don’t constantly speak in questions, when they are not asking questions.

One of my favorite books. Amazing twists and turns. Wally Lamb does it again!

Bravo!. Not a light read but well worth it………..

wally lamb is amazing... one of my most compelling books ive read. could not stop reading it. so good youll believe you actually know the characters. keep writing stuff like this wally! loved it!

Honestly. I thought this book would never end. I think that I skipped about 1/3 of the pages. Why couldn't the author stick with one maybe two tragedies instead if the 20 that he had going on in the book. Maybe then there could be some character development. About 1/3,of the way through this book I remembered that I had the same complaints about his other two novels. I always feel compelled to finish a book once I start it. I have decided not to start any more Wally Lamb's books so that I won't have to finish them. The author is a good story teller but as they say sometimes less is more.

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The The Hour I First Believed book written by Wally Lamb was published on 06 October 2009, Tuesday in the Fiction & Literature category. A total of 453 readers of the book gave the book 4 points out of 5.

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